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  1. 23 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Inspired by news and different threads here, starting a place to track and chronicle the Great Enshittening of the internet. Basically, how the internet (and other industries) are getting terrible, usually because of this process:

    We are all familiar with Facebook, and I don’t count Twitter which was made shitty on purpose with no economic rationale.  But there is enshittification creep. A few examples:

    1. Amazon Prime: Starting in January, you get ads with Prime. And unlike Netflix (also shittified), they aren’t rolling out a discount “ads” package, they will just upsell you for ad-free. 
     

    Not just streaming. Anyone else notice the frequent “Get it tomorrow” bait that changes to a different date once it’s in your cart?

    2. Google: Google’s search decline is well chronicled, but it’s creeping to other  aspects.  Google Maps is more and more crap.  There’s all the irrelevant paid ads that return hotels and restaurants even when not searching, cluttering the screen. And the photo pins, which don’t tell you about a business but use a worthless photo. Apple Maps is actually better now. 
     

    I’m going to be super interested in watching AI platforms.  I already think they’re getting enshittified in real time. 

    I was scrolling and waiting for the captainant self fellatio post but leaving disappointed.

     

    Know this is about the internet but a very real experience happened to me with a gym.  Started off nice gym with child care included, then charged for child care, then increased prices, then removed child care, then raised prices again, then reduced number of available gyms.  that's when I dumped it.

  2. 20 hours ago, immamac said:

    there are more than 2000 unique posters in CR - this is false. I think you are just pissed off about politics which is fine. 

    that's interesting.  Can we see some more stats regarding posting behavior?

     

    How many unique posters in football board?  Recruiting?  

    Of the 2000 unique in CR, who are the top 20 posters and how many posts do they have in the CR?

  3. 43 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I see that Dimon is hammering home the recession warnings again. https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/29/investing/jamie-dimon-recession-jpmorgan-economy/index.html

    The banks warn on recessions to prevent them from happening. After all weren't financial leaders talking about the strong likelihood of a 2023 recession and we just had a >5% GDP growth in the US? We need more of these "recessions" so my retirement accounts allow me to retire earlier than planned.

    Also if they keep warning about a recession, I suppose they will eventually be correct in some future year.

    EDIT: I do agree with Dimon that inflation is hurting people especially people that have limited job options, live on a fixed income or frankly are just bad personal finance managers. None of that makes them deserve to be struggling but it doesn't change the fact that they are struggling.

    growth with inflation feels fucked to a lot of people.  Confusing times to say the least. Disinflation (the good kind) bringing rates down 

     

     

  4. I think the only possibility of Texas jumping Oregon revolves around alabama winning this weekend (and assuming Oregon and Texas win).  This also assumes Michigan and FSU win. 

    2 spots for 3 teams.  You have to make guesses on bias of committee.  I think #1 bias that has been there for last 20 years is SEC is the best conference.  Therefor Alabama gets the nod.  Then you have to hope and pray the drums are so loud that you can’t leave out a team that beat Bama.  If you discount that SEC bias, and Oregon is a lock because they beat Washington, then you have to hope that the head to head matters and can’t be discounted by “but that was week 2”.  In either scenario there is more than enough wiggle room to leave Horns out and emotionally we should prepare for that outcome.  

     

    As multiple people have pointed out, safest way in for us is either a Michigan loss or FSU loss.  Otherwise get ready to get fucked.

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  5. Wait....do we actually have a real-live proponent of "the Trump tax cuts are a net positive" and "trickle-down economics works" here?  Do tell.

    Traveling but that’s not what I claimed but appreciate you putting words in my mouth.

    Captain claimed it was tax cuts as the reason for deficit spending (as if no tax cuts = no deficits). That ain’t true. I’m sure you know that.

    You used to bitch and moan about “seed crop”spending but now not a peep. Weird.
  6. 49 minutes ago, Captainant said:

    It's less so the spending and moreso the decades long tax cuts to the ultra wealthy that still haven't paid for themselves in economic growth

    Pal, this just isn't remotely true and I think I provided you data from the St. Louis federal reserve that you either missed or actively ignored that would prove this talking point is not correct.  But at least you're consistent.

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  7. 39 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    But it's not a matter of arguing about what started it or what part of the note to focus on- that's the point of the note, not an editorial speculation (which would be fine) and it is causally wrong about both the way in this jam and the way out of it for investors. That's what separates propaganda from financial information or actionable analysis about markets. And if you were the babysdaddy on hornfans in 2003,  I remember telling you and everyone who would listen (especially @washparkhorn, who also argued with me about it) that this point right now was where we were heading because we changed the structure of our deficits and that going forward they would not yield positive ROI.

    one and the same.  And I don't remember that convo on hornfans but that's probably because I was drunk or didn't give af or didn't know shit, and most likely a combo of all 3 (plus 20 years ago.....that's a little depressing).

  8. 2 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Broad strokes, that the private sector is being crowded out is a fair enough if debateable thesis. HOWEVER the takeaway is total horseshit, that this was an executive branch problem specific to Democrats and by implication could be solved with a new executive. 

    It’s also wrong on dating it to the post 2008 business cycle- the policy pursuit of flattening the business cycle with combined fiscal and monetary stimulus financed be deficit dates to 2001 and 1994, respectively. 
     

    Like how would a president unilaterally stop running a deficit over the next 11 months? That’s absurd. It reads like political propaganda, not research. You paid for that note?

    yes.  I almost didn't include that given it would take away from the bolded part and someone would come along and only focus on that portion of the note. Filtering out obvious political bias and lack of understanding on how our government is funded is necessary when reading anything these days, imo. 

    And, clearly the US government has lost the plot on deficit spending.  Just gorging now and have been for multiple years across multiple administrations and different party control of congress.  Arguing about when that started is not relevant.

  9. This was my first game to attend.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Witt's_perfect_game.  Got the Dallas Times Herald article of it framed in my attic 

    5 years old and that's how I got welcomed to the Texas Rangers.  At that old stadium we might as well have been a AAA team accidentally playing in the Majors. 

    I made up for it by attending the game in which Nolan beat tf out of Ventura.  But all of these stories are of 1 off games or nostalgia with a dash of heartbreak.  No more. No more shoe shines Billy. We're all growns up

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  10. On 10/5/2023 at 8:23 PM, aggie08 said:

    I've definitely noticed far fewer couch medical experts on this thread detailing the unlikelihood of a stroke victim recovering to a degree befitting the responsibilities of a United States Senator. Odd.

    Mea culpa.  He's turning into one of my favorite Senators.  His recovery has been much better than I ever expected based on personal experience with someone that went through aphasia.

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